Blumira
Fewer alerts and actionable cases for IT teams running security operations without a dedicated SOC
By Blumira · 4.4/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- SMB and mid-market IT teams with no dedicated security operations center that need SIEM, endpoint and identity threat detection from one console
- Organizations that must satisfy logging, retention and audit requirements for HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST or cyber-insurance applications
- MSPs delivering managed security across many small clients from a single platform
- Budget-constrained teams that want flat-rate, per-employee pricing with unlimited log ingestion and no data-volume overages
Ideal size: 50–500 employees people · SMB or mid-market IT team with no dedicated SOC
Not for
- Large enterprises with an in-house 24/7 SOC that need deep custom detection engineering and full rule control
- Environments built mainly on proprietary, legacy or OT/ICS systems that expose no standard syslog or REST API output
- Buyers who must supply and tune their own AI models or need documented model-provider choices
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Deploy in hours; same-day detection
~3 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$38,400/yr
Starts at $144 · Flat rate per employee per month, billed annually: Detect $12, Respond $16, Automate $21; unlimited data ingestion.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
$500
Seat tiers
Priced by knowledge-worker headcount, not users or admins; no seat minimum stated; extra endpoint agents $3/agent/month.
Add-on costs
- White-glove onboarding one-time fee: $500 on Detect, $250 on Respond, included in Automate
- Additional Blumira Agent endpoint: $3 per agent per month
Company & support
Who is behind Blumira, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
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How you get support
- PhoneAll plans
- EmailAll plans
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsAll plans
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- 24/7
- Response time
- 26 minutes average for all requests; 18 minutes for critical incidents
Concierge support 9am–8pm ET on all editions; 24/7 incident support on the Respond and Automate editions. Dedicated CSM and quarterly syncs on Respond and Automate.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
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Quadrant view
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Blumira ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
SOC Auto-Focus, in the Automate edition, produces plain-language explanations and summaries of security findings. The sources describe an analyst-assist capability, not an autonomous agent, and name no underlying model or provider.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Paid add-on
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Blumira is a cloud SIEM, XDR and ITDR security operations platform built for SMB and mid-market IT teams that have no dedicated SOC. It combines pre-tuned detections, 365-day log retention and 75+ integrations with 24/7 incident support on higher editions. Pricing is flat-rate per employee, so cost does not rise with log volume: Detect $12, Respond $16, Automate $21 per employee per month. AI-powered SOC Auto-Focus summaries are limited to the Automate edition, and the platform is SOC 2 compliant.
Frequently asked questions
How is Blumira priced?
Blumira charges a flat rate per employee per month rather than by data volume: Detect is $12, Respond is $16 and Automate is $21, billed on annual contracts with options for multi-year terms. Employees means knowledge workers with a corporate email address and workstation, not Blumira users or admins, and all editions include unlimited data ingestion and one year of log retention. Volume, nonprofit, government and education discounts are available on request.
How long does it take to get value from Blumira?
Blumira says deployments take hours rather than weeks, with same-day detection once cloud connectors or the virtual sensor are in place, and no professional services requirement for standard integrations. White-glove onboarding is a one-time fee of $500 on Detect and $250 on Respond, and is included with Automate. The product is generally described as about 30 minutes per week of management effort.
Which editions include 24/7 support?
Concierge support for security questions runs 9am–8pm ET on all editions. Round-the-clock expert backup during critical security incidents, along with a dedicated customer success manager and quarterly syncs, is available on the Respond and Automate editions. Blumira reports an average response time of 26 minutes across all requests and 18 minutes for critical incidents.
What compliance frameworks does Blumira help with?
Blumira provides pre-built reports and 365-day retention aligned to frameworks including SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC, CJIS, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, FFIEC, ISO 27001 and the FTC Safeguards Rule, plus suggested answers for cyber-insurance applications. Note that these pages describe helping customers meet their own obligations; Blumira itself states it is SOC 2 compliant and PCI DSS compliant.
Is the AI capability included in the price?
AI-powered SOC Auto-Focus, which produces plain-language summaries of security findings, is only available in the Automate edition at $21 per employee per month, so teams on Detect or Respond must upgrade to get it. The vendor pages do not name the model or provider behind it, nor state whether customer data is used for model training.
What are the main limits on coverage?
Blumira maintains over 75 pre-built integrations covering Microsoft 365, Azure AD, AWS, Google Workspace, Okta, Duo, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne and major firewalls, and will evaluate custom integrations when a source has syslog or a REST API. Environments dominated by proprietary, legacy or industrial control systems may not be ingestible, and large enterprises with an in-house SOC may find detection-rule control less granular than purpose-built SIEMs.